119. Chapter 119 The reappearance of a familiar name
119. Chapter 119 The reappearance of a familiar name
Author: Gushan fishing snow
Chapter 119 A familiar name appears again
After the team members stood on the tower, everyone except the dwarf exclaimed softly.
Flint clenched his warhammer and shouted: "What's wrong? What happened? Did the orcs attack the city? What are you shocked about?"
Only Rosalie looked at the dwarf, probably she had never seen the dwarf's reaction when facing the battlements.
Also unable to see the hands and feet of Xiaobai below, he climbed up the mage's neck and rode on top, and then made a "wow" sound.
The elf whispered: "It is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of people, maybe all the orc tribes in the wasteland are here."
Wang: "More than that, not only the men of the orc tribe can fight, but the female orcs are also very powerful. Although the old orcs are not as strong as their prime, their strength is greater than that of ordinary human men. It can be said that the entire race of orcs are warriors.
"And with so many prime-age men going off to fight, the women and children of the tribe may face the dilemma of a reduced supply of prey. Therefore, when orc tribes set out to plunder, they usually bring their families with them.
"If there are 100,000 orcs in their prime on this plain, that means there are three times that number of female orcs, old orcs, and children behind. If they are pushed hard, they will all come up and fight."
Rosalie looked at Wang: "Are you... so familiar with orcs?"
Wang: "I have read a book called "A Research on Common Races in Gralia" written by my teacher. It contains records of all races except their views on marriage and love."
Rosalie: "Why is the concept of marriage and love missing? Wait a minute, is it just the concept of marriage and love? So the birth method is still recorded?"
Wang: "Yes. So I also have complete knowledge. Once I have a love partner in this plane, I can ensure that everything goes smoothly in the future."
Elizabeth blushed and asked, "Can you tell me clearly what went well!"
At this time, Rosalie's eldest brother, the eldest prince Eowyn, appeared on the city wall. As soon as he appeared, he saluted the king: "My father heard that you set out to visit the city wall, so he specially asked me to explain the situation to you."
Marika suddenly appeared and stood between the eldest prince and everyone: "It's amazing, you actually appeared at this time. The palace is far away from the Wangli Library where we live, and considering the time it took to get here, you are actually here with us
The back foot is here.
"You will know this as soon as we go out. But I have already killed all the spies who were watching us in the dark alley."
Éowyn smiled: "You have indeed cleared our eyes, but you don't know that we just gave the administrator of the Wangli Library a sound transmission stone."
Marika frowned, and it seemed that he had nothing to do with this kind of "spy" who was on the surface.
Wang: "The sound transmission stone? Now that the war is going on, why should we give something like this to a librarian that can carry out real-time command and communication? Just to keep track of our movements?"
Eowyn laughed: "We are in Monrovia, and each of our generals has this kind of sound transmission stone. We have a huge command tower with countless compartments, each compartment corresponding to five generals.
, there are sound transmission stones for the generals, and they are guarded by dedicated personnel."
Sound transmission stones are in pairs and can only transmit sounds to each other.
Elizabeth suddenly thought of something and turned to ask the king: "Does your mage tower also use sound transmission stones for communication?"
"No, we use communication badges. Everyone can name their own badge. When using it, just press the badge with your thumb and shout out the name of the badge you want to connect. The other party's badge will vibrate. At this time, the other party only needs to use their thumb to
Just press the badge to make a call.”
As he said this, Wang took out the badge from his dimensional bag: "This is my badge, it's called Communication Unit 01."
Rosalie: "Does that mean there is still communication unit 02?"
"No, no. But just calling it communication unit is not cool enough. Adding 01 is much more handsome."
As he spoke, the mage pressed his thumb on the badge and yelled: "Bitch!"
Then the badge doesn't respond.
Wang: "You see, badges cannot communicate across planes. The badge named Goudan is not in this plane, so you cannot call him."
Nini asked curiously: "Why did you contact him specifically? Is he a person of extraordinary significance to you?"
"No, he is an orc. He became a mage with an orc's IQ. Together with the man who said he would become a mage no matter how bad he is, he is a legend in our tower. This legend does not refer to spellcasting ability, but to experience."
Eowyn watched the king's team discuss these with a smile, and interrupted at the right moment: "I really hope we can have such advanced magic props here."
Wang: "In some planes, you can do this without magic. In fact, there is a view in our tower that magic restricts the development of other skills in the plane.
"Some planes have no magic, but they can build ships that instantly appear in another space with coordinates spanning hundreds of millions of kilometers. However, on their ships, the craftsmen in red clothes often die suddenly, which looks like some kind of sacrifice.
magic.
"There are other planes where magic is only telepathy, but it can create golems that can freely enter and exit the crystal wall system. The magic ships in that plane are always damaged on the port side, as if the fate of the ship has been artificially corrected.
"
Wang suddenly stopped and looked at the silent crowd: "What's wrong?"
Nini: "It's nothing. What you said about other planes is very interesting. I really want to go and see it one day."
Elizabeth was shocked and immediately said: "I want to go too! I want to go!"
Wang: "If you haven't broken away from the flow of time, going to too many planes will have side effects. Most people can't afford to switch time flows frequently. You have to upgrade. We also have people in the Mage Tower who can't upgrade, so they can only go out to study once in a while."
He paused and added: "I'm afraid that I will become such a person, so I want to master the nine-ring spellcasting ability and gain access to pursue upgrades."
Eowyn had been listening to the king's words, and at this time said: "So, you will eventually leave this plane?"
Wang: "The destination of a powerful mage is the stars. Ah, the 'stars' here refer to different planes."
Elizabeth suddenly felt melancholy: "So you... don't actually want to find someone who can drive a carriage with you to do business?"
"I think so." The mage replied immediately.
Elizabeth: "What if she can't get promoted?"
Wang: "Ah, our Mage Tower has the technology to forcibly upgrade."
"Eh?" Elizabeth looked at him in surprise, "You just said there are people who can't be upgraded!"
"Because these techniques have side effects, basically everything except the soul has changed. The body of a planeswalker who normally embraces the stars is still the original body. The forced upgrade is actually just the upper form of lich transformation. So some people are unwilling to choose."
Elizabeth sighed: "I...can a warlock also look up at the stars?"
Wang: "I don't know. Maybe a warlock can rely on his own inspiration and charm to understand the ultimate mysteries of the universe through instinct? After all, if the warlock's blood is strong, it is possible that he can cast nine-ring arcane spells as soon as he wakes up. Since
The nine-ring arcana can be used, and the secrets of the universe can be used as well."
Flint: "If not, take a chance on some wild mushrooms."
At this time, Rosalie said to her eldest brother: "You are listening very attentively, Your Highness."
Monrovia is not an electorate, and the eldest son of the Myhrvold family can inherit the empire, just like other dukes and counts.
Eowyn: "I like these questions too. It's a pity that I don't have the talent for magic, otherwise I might give up the throne and pursue the mysteries of magic."
Rosalie: "You came here just to talk about this?"
Eowyn: "Of course not. But it seems that the orcs are just building siege camps and siege engines today, so the military situation is not too urgent."
The sergeant next to him looked like he wanted to talk, but in Monrovia, when you are of low status, you cannot speak first without the permission of someone of high status.
Rosalie noticed the sergeant's expression and said, "What do you want to say, sergeant?"
After getting permission to speak, the sergeant immediately said: "The city walls of Minos are so high. When the orcs came here before, they couldn't build such a high siege tower. They didn't have enough architectural and design talents to build a siege tower."
It looks like it is made of garbage, and it is so fragile that it can be shot to pieces with a ballista."
After the sergeant finished speaking, Éowyn nodded: "Thank you for your insights, sergeant."
He turned and looked down the city wall.
The mage also came to the prince's side, took out his telescope and looked down together.
The orcs are using shields to cover themselves and setting up bunkers in the open space in front of the city wall to cover their archers during the attack.
Further away, the orcs built a camp, put up fences to block people's access, and sentry towers were also being built.
However, the tower of the siege tower has not been seen at all. It may be that, as the sergeant said, it is too difficult for the orcs to build.
Farther away, at a position that could not be seen clearly with the king's eyesight, the orcs had set up a logging camp and were cutting down the shrubs around Minos.
At this time, Connaught, the clover knight, the emperor's military chief, came out of the tower on the White City wall and came towards us with a group of generals.
When he arrived in front of the prince, the old general first saluted the prince, then turned to the king, and finally saluted Rosalie.
King: "Strange, shouldn't you bow to the two royal heirs first? I'm just a passing mage."
Connaught said: "His Majesty's order is that you are the most distinguished guest, with a higher status than himself. But I heard that you are a reasonable person, then you should know that if I really ignore the prince, I must first
You salute, in the future..."
Éowyn: "Don't worry, Master."
Connaught: "I have not served as your teacher. I do not deserve this title."
"But I want to learn the skills of military command from you, teacher. You are the hero of the last orc war. The 'military expert' my father found for me was basically just talk on paper, and only talked about being thoroughly analyzed and studied by others.
famous battle, without any of my own opinions or feelings."
Connaught: "My biggest feeling since I joined the army is that I would rather not be so familiar with war. The only fortunate thing is that war is so terrible that no one will like it."
While the two were talking, Wang interrupted directly: "General Connaught, right? I have a question."
Elizabeth sighed and teased: "You either have a problem or you have a plan. Choose one of the two. As for things like the situation and atmosphere, you don't care at all."
Wang: "Is there something wrong with the air here? I didn't notice it?"
Nini: "She is talking about atmosphere, not air. The two words in common language are based on the same etymology, so they are somewhat similar."
Wang: "Oh, I heard something wrong."
Connaught: "What questions do you have?"
Wang pointed to the orc blockade outside: "As far as I can see, the orcs' blockade of the city has not been completed. The fence and sentry tower should not be completed today, right?"
Connaught: "Yes, the orcs are very poor at building."
Wang: "Does that mean a seven-man team can sneak out relatively easily?"
Connaught was shocked: "Do you want to sneak out?"
Wang: "Yes, we have no reason to stay in the city and fight with you. And we have got the clues we need from the Royal Institute of Architects. The target is Yi Songzuo, one of the city-states along the river. We
Get to Isonzo as soon as possible and start searching for this church."
Connaught: "Don't you have a third-level spellcasting ability? How do you deal with a sect that randomly sends a seventh-level magician to kill you?"
Wang: "We'll find out if we can fight against him. And wasn't the Seventh Ring Mage killed by me? Huh?"
Wang suddenly slapped his thigh, as if remembering something important: "I am no longer a fourth-ring mage, I am a three-ring... No, it is a fourth-ring! There is one more ring than the third-ring! Oh my God, I forgot
Yes! When preparing spells this morning, I followed my custom and prepared spells up to the third level, but not the fourth level!" (*)
Everyone else was silent.
Xiaobai, who was riding on the king's neck, expressed his opinions - opinions expressed from a high place: "You are really smart! I shouted right!"
Elizabeth: "Xiaobai is right."
Nini: "So we won't sneak away tonight?"
Wang: "Of course not, soldiers are valuable and quick, we will leave tonight!"
Rosalie: "Wait a minute! Don't you want your Star Chaser?"
Wang: "My second plan was to transform into a dragon and attack the orcs' ballista position, and then the Star Chaser would take the opportunity to kill them. But it is naturally better to sneak out without alerting the orcs than to launch an attack in a big way."
Rosalie: "Isn't stealth dangerous?"
Wang: "Stealth is not necessarily dangerous. After all, whether you will be discovered depends on how well the opponent plays. But transforming into a dragon and attacking is definitely dangerous."
"I'm afraid the second option is not very realistic." The Duke of Connaught said, "The current report shows that the orcs have set up crossbows on both sides of the bank. There are a total of seven discovered crossbow positions. In addition, our army also discovered crossbows during careful operations.
The artillery positions are protected by fifth- or even sixth-ring casters."
King: "Shaman?"
Connaught: "No, he looks like a mage."
Wang frowned: "Orc mage?"
"Human necromancer, with zombies."
At this time, the eldest prince spoke: "According to the reliable information we have obtained, there is a powerful nine-ring lich next to the new co-leader of the orc tribe. We are asking for help from the Arcane Federation, and the knights of Lancelot and Typhon in the city
The regiment is already restless. For the top paladins of the Knights, the nine-ringed lich is their dream prey."
Wang: "We already know this. I mean, in the first half, the orcs were assisted by lichs."
The Great Prince: "Didn't your teacher say that there are several manifestations of crisis? Among them are the activity of undead creatures and the appearance of lich in large numbers."
Wang: "That was the third stage, and the second stage has not come yet. Are there any low-priced but 'overly' effective healing scrolls and healing potions for sale in the city?"
The eldest prince: "No. In fact, there are no healing scrolls or healing potions for sale in the city. We wanted to purchase more for the city defense troops, but we couldn't find a place to buy them. We had to ask the magicians, priests and alchemists in the city to work overtime.
Make it with a little extra.”
Flint stopped trying to climb up between the battlements, turned around and asked: "How come you officials can't get healing scrolls and potions?"
Connaught said in a disgusted tone: "They were all bought up by the nobles. These days, a large number of nobles who have no confidence in their castles are pouring into Minos, and they are purchasing large quantities of healing scrolls and potions. If the orcs rush in and kill
I found a nobleman and found five healing scrolls from him.
"His Majesty publicly ordered the nobles to donate scrolls to the fighting troops. Guess what? The nobleman who donated the most only donated 20 scrolls. He said that was all he had, so His Majesty had him beheaded for treason. In his mansion
Two hundred were found.
"After killing chickens like this to scare monkeys, the nobles handed over thousands of scrolls in total. Everyone knew that they still had them, but His Majesty couldn't kill them anymore. In this situation, the standing troops brought by the nobles were also an important combat force.
.”
Rosalie: "Monrovia is so ill. Even though there is civil war in Kusania next door every time a new emperor is elected, at least each family has strong troops. It's just that they are not united."
Elizabeth frowned: "This is prejudice."
Just before the two started to argue, Wang said: "Without cheap scrolls and potions, the appearance of the lich is just accidental and has nothing to do with the crisis we want to manage."
The team members have become accustomed to the mage's true performance. But the Monrovians looked at each other in shock.
Wang: "We'd better sneak away tonight. I wish you good luck."
Grand Prince: "Our scouts liberated some orc slaves. Because the orcs did not plunder this time, these slaves are all old slaves who have been imprisoned by the orcs for many years. They provided interesting information."